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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309231430260.28875-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
>             Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> writes:
> : Anyone have any experience with PC/104 or other really small
> : footprint platorms and FreeBSD?
> 
> Yes.  Works great.  We've used FreeBSD on about two dozen different
> single board computers.
> 
> : We need to build a small box for equipment monitoring (temperature,
> : pressure diff., vibration, indication).  Just a few discrete
> : inputs/outputs, and analog inputs would be good enough.  The
> : hard part may be sampling an A/D signal at up to 30KHz, so
> : having the I/O card do the sampling and buffer it would
> : probably be necessary.
> 
> I'd recommend one of the Soekris boxes.
> 
> : Any ideas on hardware (SBC, I/O board)?
> 
> http://www.soekris.com is great.

Yes, it looks nice.  The form factor is just a bit
larger than PC/104, especially with a PCCard plugged
into its side.  We'd also need some sort of general
purpose I/O card which are fairly easy to find in
PC/104 stacking modules.

-- 
Dan Eischen